I am still waiting for the 60-minute episode where they interview illegals and the illegals explain how they were recruited by NGO operatives with promises of Citizenship and transportation. Is anyone else surprised by the lack of interest in how the illegals are brought here? It's a forbidden story. We aren't dealing with some border migration of a few Mexicans. Instead we have a planned and executed invasion.
This is all absolutely true- particularly in regards to the arts. Typically, when I see an artist has received a grant (practically of any kind) their work is usually shite. In order to receive one, you must have been able to do the box-checking. Art today, feels like homework. Hopelessly academic, grievance based- drumming up the ills and plights of the past with little or no concern for the individual. I hate just about anything based on one´s "heritage", with the exception of family recipes.
Here on Substack, I follow someone who won the MacArthur grant, and they have the gall to complain about how they suffered prejudice (from racist white police of course) the same day of accepting their award (which I thought was half a million, but turns out to be a whopping $800,000 now; or always had been?) I suppose entitlement only grows the more it gets.
Speaking somewhere between figurative and literal, we'e reached the point where special interests are just printing their own dollars. The rest of us peasants are trying to play an honest game in this increasingly globalist monopoly run by a woke caste of brahmin counterfeiters.
Everything from the MacArthur to the Pulitzer to the National Book Awards to the Guggenheims etc should be renamed The White Guilt Awards. (At least then there'd be truth in advertising.)
"And the winner for best Oppression Porn meant to tickle the erogenous zones of pious white liberals in the category of Gay Latinx is..."
Our time will go down as the Golden Age of Tokenism, where all achievements reflect only a high score on the Oppression-O-Meter.
Once again: these people are somehow ALL THE SAME PEOPLE (which is quite an accomplishment for people who claim to be artists, writers and "radicals").
What do those working in DEI do all day? What kind of “work” do they do? All those people you show on these boards, on these foundations, look like over educated ( with do nothing degrees), soft, foolish, entitled babies.
Wow, another nothing foundation! Potentially talented, creative humans capable of valued contributions to humanity who in actuality are utterly useless
They used to be less partisan than that and more focused on STEM. A physicist at Berkeley who is a solid scientist (Richard Muller), whose thesis advisor was Nobel Prize winner Luis Alvarez, got one of the early grants.
It is not about writing letters to elected officials or voting some good person into office.
Citizenship
Is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule, regulation and supreme court decision on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.
It makes you wonder why right-leaning millionaires and billionaires refuse to do anything similar. Maybe they just have no taste?
I am still waiting for the 60-minute episode where they interview illegals and the illegals explain how they were recruited by NGO operatives with promises of Citizenship and transportation. Is anyone else surprised by the lack of interest in how the illegals are brought here? It's a forbidden story. We aren't dealing with some border migration of a few Mexicans. Instead we have a planned and executed invasion.
This is all absolutely true- particularly in regards to the arts. Typically, when I see an artist has received a grant (practically of any kind) their work is usually shite. In order to receive one, you must have been able to do the box-checking. Art today, feels like homework. Hopelessly academic, grievance based- drumming up the ills and plights of the past with little or no concern for the individual. I hate just about anything based on one´s "heritage", with the exception of family recipes.
Here on Substack, I follow someone who won the MacArthur grant, and they have the gall to complain about how they suffered prejudice (from racist white police of course) the same day of accepting their award (which I thought was half a million, but turns out to be a whopping $800,000 now; or always had been?) I suppose entitlement only grows the more it gets.
Speaking somewhere between figurative and literal, we'e reached the point where special interests are just printing their own dollars. The rest of us peasants are trying to play an honest game in this increasingly globalist monopoly run by a woke caste of brahmin counterfeiters.
One molecular biologist on that list. One. I remember when MacArthur grant was synonymous with STEM. Wowsa.
I wonder if removing tax-exempt status for non-profits would not be a solution. If they had to pay taxes, they would eventually run out of money.
Very little of the money actually goes to the poor, so why should these institutions be tax-exempt?
The best thing about substack is also the "worst":
To know the truth, is to know it will make you "mad" - in both senses of the word .
Nonetheless you can't "unlook" it.
Thanks once again Yuri for learning me up.
Everything from the MacArthur to the Pulitzer to the National Book Awards to the Guggenheims etc should be renamed The White Guilt Awards. (At least then there'd be truth in advertising.)
"And the winner for best Oppression Porn meant to tickle the erogenous zones of pious white liberals in the category of Gay Latinx is..."
Our time will go down as the Golden Age of Tokenism, where all achievements reflect only a high score on the Oppression-O-Meter.
Once again: these people are somehow ALL THE SAME PEOPLE (which is quite an accomplishment for people who claim to be artists, writers and "radicals").
What do those working in DEI do all day? What kind of “work” do they do? All those people you show on these boards, on these foundations, look like over educated ( with do nothing degrees), soft, foolish, entitled babies.
Absolutely right.
Wow, another nothing foundation! Potentially talented, creative humans capable of valued contributions to humanity who in actuality are utterly useless
Well, these folks have to fund each other. Most certainly couldn’t work and make a living doing something useful.
They used to be less partisan than that and more focused on STEM. A physicist at Berkeley who is a solid scientist (Richard Muller), whose thesis advisor was Nobel Prize winner Luis Alvarez, got one of the early grants.
The white guy chose his acolytes well. A la Kafka they will eventually fulfill his self loathing and eat him whole.
fools and their money
Representative democracy has failed.
We need something new.
Ross Perot called it The Electronic Townhall.
Citizenship
It is not about writing letters to elected officials or voting some good person into office.
Citizenship
Is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule, regulation and supreme court decision on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.